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It’s taken more than 50 years, but the dangers that Vietnam veterans such as Keith Trexler faced during the war finally are being recognized.
Tens of thousands of sailors including Trexler — who served on ships offshore — long have been denied the same...

David Fillman’s column (The Morning Call, Feb. 21) calling for a minimum wage increase and an additional tax on the natural gas industry ignores the negative impacts these proposals would have on the state’s economy.
Countless independent studies have...

The Congressional Budget Office recently released the first complete picture of federal tax revenue for 2018, the inaugural year for President Trump’s signature tax cuts, mostly benefiting the wealthy. The Trump administration sold the tax law by claiming...

Hearings on Gov. Tom Wolf's $34.1 billion budget plan kicked off Monday with a volley of Republican attacks on the prospect of raising the minimum wage, signaling a tough road ahead for a new proposal the Democrat is backing.
The first House...

It seems the federal budget process is broken, and the dysfunction is a disservice to our country — especially to Americans who don’t often have a voice in Washington. Thankfully, lawmakers have a chance to fix it.
We must move away from the partisan...

Sen. Marco Rubio has introduced a paid-leave bill that would allow parents to collect Social Security benefits following the arrival of a new child, even if those parents are not retired.
The benefits would be used to finance time away from work, and...

Lehigh Valley residents seeking insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s individual marketplace will have more options in 2019, according to filings released Monday by the Pennsylvania Insurance Department.
Buyers across the state will have more...

Surrounded by police and firefighters at Bethlehem Town Hall Monday, U.S. Sen. Bob Casey drew attention to a new law that will help children of first responders who died in the line of duty.
The provision would allow those children to receive up to the...

We need to pay attention to and inform others about a recent announcement from the U.S. Treasury expecting to borrow almost double what was borrowed last year. The
Congressional Budget Office
said tax receipts will be lower because of the new tax...

Insurers want to raise premiums on Obamacare plans by about 4.9 percent for 2019, the Pennsylvania Insurance Department said Tuesday.
The good news is that consumers in about half of Pennsylvania’s counties will have more options, as insurers will...

As some insurers angle for hefty premium hikes and concerns grow that more Americans will wind up uninsured, the federal health law is likely — once again — to play big in both parties' strategies for the contentious 2018 election.
Candidates are already...

Larry Kudlow, the former CNBC pundit, is now a member of our kakistocracy (a government of the worst). He is
President Trump
's new chief economic adviser. Kudlow is a doctrinaire supply-sider with an almost theological belief in cutting taxes. He...

I hope with the election in November that senior citizens remember how the Republican Party in Washington, D.C., forced through the tax bill this past December, which will help mostly the 1 percent of the richest Americans. However, according to...

Taxpayers won’t be footing the bill for painted portraits of government officials under a bill that cleared the U.S. House of Representatives this week.
The measure — dubbed the Eliminating Government-funded Oil-painting, or EGO, Act — makes permanent...

While the rate of economic growth for the U.S. over the last seven years was slow, that was not the case for employment growth, which recorded 17 million new jobs over that time. That's an average of 2.5 million new jobs a year.
The unemployment rate has...

Nearly 400,000 Pennsylvanians signed up for insurance through the Affordable Care Act in the shortened six-week enrollment period that ended Dec. 15, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday.
Enrollment for 2018 fell about 7 percent...

The House on Wednesday approved a massive Republican plan to overhaul the tax code, clearing the bill's final hurdle in Congress and sending it to President Donald Trump to be signed into law.
The House vote comes after the Senate approved an identical...

Hours after the U.S. Senate’s predawn vote for a sweeping overhaul of the federal tax code, Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., sat down with The Morning Call to talk about a televised moment when the entire package teetered on the abyss, whether the individual tax...

Pennsylvanians have until Friday to purchase an insurance plan from the Affordable Care Act marketplace to meet a federal requirement for 2018.
More than 205,000 Pennsylvanians enrolled in a marketplace plan from Nov. 1 to Dec. 9. Last year, about 191,000...

Our health care system is so out of whack that it has made silver more expensive than gold.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, you’ll find out if you’re shopping for health insurance on the Obamacare marketplace before the Dec. 15 deadline to...